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Patent JP-2013514396-A (JP)
Title: 液晶混合物
IPC: G02F1/13
Filed: 2010-12-13
Abstract: 本発明は、液晶混合物、並びに本発明による液晶混合物のオリゴマー化又は重合により得ることができるオリゴマー又はポリマー、本発明による液晶混合物の施与及び引き続き重合により基材を印刷又はコーティングする方法及び光学部品又は電気光学部品を製造するための本発明による液晶混合物又は本発明によるオリゴマー又はポリマーの使用を記載する。さらに、本発明は、断熱層を製造するための、少なくとも１種のキラルドーパントを含有する本発明による液晶混合物の使用、並びにそのような断熱層に関する。
Patent JP-2013514582-A (JP)
Title: 取引情報に基づいたｉｐアドレスデータベースの更新
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2010-12-15
Abstract: インターネットプロトコル（ＩＰ）アドレスデータベースの更新は、ユーザ取引の際に受信されたＩＰアドレス情報および地理的アドレス情報を含む取引アドレスデータを、取引情報データベースから取得し、重複する地理的アドレス情報および連続するＩＰアドレスを有する特定の取引アドレスデータを識別するために取引アドレスデータを処理し、前記重複する地理的アドレス情報および連続するＩＰアドレスに基づいて、ＩＰアドレスデータベースを更新することを含む。 【選択図】図１Ａ
Patent JP-2013516898-A (JP)
Title: Ｓｍｐｐプロトコルを使用するｓｍｓなりすましの管理
IPC: H04W12/12
Filed: 2010-12-16
Abstract: ショート・メッセージング・ピアツーピア（ＳＭＰＰ）プロトコルを使用するショート・メッセージング・サービス（ＳＭＳ）なりすましを管理するためのシステムおよび方法が開示される。ＳＭＰＰプロトコル通信は、ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）およびＳＭＰＰ送受信装置（２０４）を含む。ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）は、宛先への転送のためにＳＭＳメッセージを識別または受信する。ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）は、ＳＭＳメッセージに関する送信元アドレスを識別し、その送信元アドレスが真正であるかを判定する。もし、前記送信元アドレスが真正でなければ、ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）は、前記ＳＭＳメッセージと共に、ＳＭＰＰパケット・データ・ユニット（ＰＤＵ）をＳＭＰＰ送受信装置（２０４）へ伝送する前に、送信元アドレスが真正でないという正当性標識をＳＭＰＰ  ＰＤＵに挿入する。ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）からＳＭＰＰ  ＰＤＵを受信すると、ＳＭＰＰ送受信装置（２０４）は、ＳＭＰＰ伝送装置（２０２）により提供された正当性標識に基づいて宛先へＳＭＳメッセージを配送するか否かを判定し得る。
Patent JP-2013517840-A (JP)
Title: 画像誘導処置間の変形に対してデータを訂正するシステムおよび方法
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2011-01-21
Abstract: 画像誘導外科的（ＩＧＳ）処置を実行しつつ、使用される物理的空間データの収集および処理を行うシステムおよび方法が提供される。該システムおよび方法は、患者の対象となる非剛体構造のコンピュータモデルを取得すること、コンピュータモデルと非剛体構造の少なくとも一部に関連付けられた患者空間における表面データとの剛体位置合わせを実行することを含む。該システムおよび方法は、コンピュータモデルと表面データとの非剛体位置合わせを提供するコンピュータモデルの変形を計算することを含み、変形は、剛体位置合わせとカーネル関数とに基づきコンピュータモデルの各ノードに対して画定された１セットの境界条件を用いて計算される。さらに、該システムおよび方法は、変形に基づきＩＧＳ処置を容易にするデータを表示することを含み得る。
Patent JP-2013518657-A (JP)
Title: 片面送信コイルセットのアレイを持つ視野内の磁性粒子に作用する及び／又は検出するための装置及び方法
IPC: A61K49/00
Filed: 2011-01-28
Abstract: 本発明は視野内の磁性粒子に作用する及び／又は検出するための装置と方法に関する。視野を増加し、同時に撮像中の患者へのアクセスを可能にするために、装置は２つ以上の送信コイルセット２００を有し、隣接コイルセットは部分的に重なり、送信コイルセットは以下を有する：低磁場強度を持つ第１のサブゾーン５２と高磁場強度を持つ第２のサブゾーン５４が視野２８内に形成されるようにその磁場強度の空間内パターンを持つ選択磁場５０を発生させるための、同心円状に配置される選択磁場コイル２１１，２１２のペア２１０、及び磁性粒子の磁化が局所的に変化するように駆動磁場によって視野２８内の前記２つのサブゾーン５２，５４の空間内位置を変化させるための、駆動磁場コイル２２１，２２２；２３１，２３２の少なくとも１つのペア２２０，２３０、前記駆動磁場コイルの少なくとも１つのペア２２０，２３０は前記選択磁場コイル２１１，２１２のペア２１０に平行に配置され、２つの隣接コイルループによって形成される。
Patent JP-2013518673-A (JP)
Title: 連続発光の光音響分光法
IPC: A61B5/145
Filed: 2011-02-02
Abstract: １つ以上の周波数で連続光を放射することによって光音響分光法を使用して微小循環を分析するための方法およびシステムが提供される。光音響分光モニタが、患者の組織に存在する異なる吸収体を測定できるよう、放射される光の波長を変化させるために遅い変調法を利用することができる。光音響分光センサが、より低出力の連続波を患者の組織へと放射することができる。組織によって生成される音響応答を、センサの検出器に位置する薄いポリマー検出フィルムによって検出することができる。検出器によって検出された音響応答の振幅および位相情報にもとづき、モニタが患者の組織における吸収体の濃度および吸収体の位置を割り出すことができる。
Patent JP-2013520024-A (JP)
Title: 基板支持構造，クランプ準備ユニット，そしてリソグラフィーシステム
IPC: H01L21/683
Filed: 2011-02-18
Abstract: 液体（１１）の毛管層により表面（１６）上に基板（１２）をクランプする為の基板支持構造（１３）。上記表面は外縁（２８）を有しているとともに、クランプされる基板を受け入れる為の１つ又はそれ以上の基板支持要素（１７）を含み、ここにおいて１つ又はそれ以上の基板支持要素が複数の支持位置での基板の為の支持を提供するよう配置されている。基板支持構造はさらに、上記表面を取り囲んでいるとともに密封リムを形成している上表面又は縁（２２，２４，２６）を有している密封構造（２１）を含む。上記表面の上記外縁と上記複数の支持位置の最も外方との間の距離（ｃ）は、上記外縁と上記密封リムとの間の距離（ｄ）よりも大きい。 【選択図】    図１５
Patent JP-2013520336-A (JP)
Title: セキュリティ装置
IPC: G03H1/18
Filed: 2011-02-24
Abstract: 装置の第１の領域に、透明で、着色された要素（２）を含み、そして該装置の表面に第１の光学的に可変の効果を発生するレリーフ構造（２１）が形成されたセキュリティ装置。反射促進層（３０）が、該第１の光学的に可変の効果を発生するレリーフミクロ構造（２１）の上に広がっており、そして該レリーフの輪郭に追従しており、該反射促進層はまた、該装置の第２の領域にも、該第１の領域から横方向にずれて与えられている。
Patent JP-2013521094-A (JP)
Title: 口腔用マウスピース及びその使用方法
IPC: A61M11/00
Filed: 2011-03-04
Abstract: 本発明は、概して、ユーザーの口又は中咽頭へ流体を送り込むための口腔用器具又はマウスピースに関する。一つの実施形態においては、該口腔用器具は、口腔内部分と、口腔外部分と、該口腔用器具を安定させる機能を果たす補助支持器具とを備えている。種々の実施形態において、該補助支持器具は、耳用ループと支持バンドと支持フレーム及び／又は支持部材とによって形成されている。前記の口腔内部分は、概ね少なくとも１つの出口ポートを備えており、該出口ポートを介して流体が口腔又は中咽頭へと送り込まれる。該口腔用器具を使用して流体を計量分配する方法も提供されている。
Patent JP-2014133325-A (JP)
Title: Polyester film
Inventor: AMAKO KATSUYA
IPC: B32B27/36
Filed: 2013-01-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a useful polyester film which has excellent transparency and slipperiness, on which scratches are hardly generated when the polyester film is produced, and which can suppress generation of optical interference colors.SOLUTION: The polyester film is a bi-axially oriented polyester film having a multilayer structure comprising three or more layers. The thickness of each of the outermost layers is 2.5 μm or more. At least one layer other than both of the outermost layers is a layer containing the copolymerized polyester comprising: a dicarboxylic acid component including terephthalic acid and isophthalic acid; and ethylene glycol. The polyester film has 600 nm or lower of in-plane retardation, 0.5% or lower of internal haze, and 9.0 nm or larger of surface roughness Ra.
Patent JP-2014134921-A (JP)
Title: User interface design device and user interface device
Inventor: KITAMURA YOSHIAKI
IPC: G06T13/80
Filed: 2013-01-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a user interface design device and a user interface device capable of efficiently setting an animation by surely associating user interface components before and after change by the animation.SOLUTION: A UI component similarity calculation part 106 integrates a plurality of attribute values of user interface components and calculates similarity between the interface components. An association registration part 107 associates user interface components having high similarity with each other. An animation setting part 108 sets an animation between the user interface components associated by the association registration part 107.
Patent JP-2014136195-A (JP)
Title: Duct cleaning device
Inventor: KONNO MINORU
IPC: B08B9/053
Filed: 2013-01-17
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a duct cleaning device which may move in a duct even if an obstacle exists on an inner surface of the duct.SOLUTION: A duct cleaning device 1 includes: a device body 2; a cleaning head 4 which is provided so as to rotate relative to the device body 2; and multiple leg parts 5 which are provided at the device body 2 so as to be arranged in a rotation direction of the cleaning head 4 and contact with an inner surface of a duct P so as to move in a moving direction. When the cleaning head 4 rotates relative to the device body 2 in the duct P, the leg parts 5 rotate with the device body 2 contacting with the inner surface of the duct P.
Patent JP-2014138514-A (JP)
Title: Device for charging secondary battery
Inventor: YAMAMOTO TAKESHI
IPC: H02J7/02
Filed: 2013-01-17
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charging device that reduces power on standby, power during charging and power after charging.SOLUTION: A charging circuit 10 for supplying power to a battery pack 30 and a control circuit 20 for controlling charging of the battery pack are connected to a secondary side of a transformer T. The charging circuit 10 has first and second constant voltage setting sections for holding a voltage of the charging circuit at preset constant values. The first constant voltage setting section D3 has the setting of a voltage capable of charging the battery pack to be charged to any battery voltage, and the second constant voltage setting section D2 has the setting of a voltage lower than the first charging voltage and higher than a voltage necessary to drive the control circuit 20. The control circuit 20 includes a battery state discrimination circuit 22 for detecting a charge state of the battery pack, and a charge control section 21 for switching between the first and second constant voltage setting sections in response to the detection result of the battery state discrimination circuit, and when no battery pack is mounted or when a charge is complete, causes a current of the lower voltage set by the second constant voltage setting section D2 to flow from the charging circuit 10 to the control circuit 20.
Patent JP-2014138350-A (JP)
Title: Server device and network connection method
Inventor: OKUMURA TOMOHIDE
IPC: H04L12/24
Filed: 2013-01-18
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a server device enabling easy connection of an apparatus of a management object to a network.SOLUTION: A server device 100 includes a control unit 103, a communication unit 101 and a storage unit 102. In the storage unit 102, a list of equipment registration name connectable to a network 200 is stored in advance. The communication unit 101 receives a self-introduction notification from the equipment connected to the network 200. The control unit 103 acquires a unique identifier of the equipment included in the self-introduction notification. If there is no registration name associated with the unique identifier in the list, the control unit 103 transmits, to the equipment through the communication unit 101, a signal to allow the transmission source equipment of the self-introduction notification to selectively display all registration names not associated with any unique identifier in the list. When either one of the displayed registration names is selected, the control unit 103 updates the registration name in the list in a manner to associate with the acquired unique identifier, so as to make the equipment to be the management object.
Patent JP-2014141916-A (JP)
Title: Starting device for spark ignition type multi-cylinder engine
Inventor: MIYAMOTO KEIICHI
IPC: F02D13/02
Filed: 2013-01-23
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compatibly attain the avoidance of preignition and quick start when starting a spark ignition type multi-cylinder engine.SOLUTION: When a hydraulic pressure is not higher than a predetermined value, a valve phase varying mechanism 32 locks a valve closing timing for an intake valve 21 to a midway timing between a most advanced timing and a most retarded timing after an intake bottom dead center, as a predetermined timing to enable the cold start of an engine 1. When the temperature condition of the engine when started shows a high temperature not lower than a predetermined temperature, starting means (an engine controller 100) sets a fuel injection timing for at least a cylinder being in an intake stroke at a time when stopping the engine, out of a plurality of cylinders 11, to be retarded to come into an early stage of an expansion stroke after a compression top dead center, and sets an ignition timing to come into an early stage of an expansion stroke after completing fuel injection. Even after the hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the valve phase varying mechanism exceeds the predetermined value, but before completing the start of the engine, the starting means does not further retard the valve closing timing for the intake valve than the predetermined timing.
Patent JP-2016041611-A (JP)
Title: Sheet feeder, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
Inventor: MATSUO TAKESHI
IPC: B65H1/04
Filed: 2013-01-24
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet feeder capable of reliably preventing the jamming of a sheet such as an original document at the inside.SOLUTION: An ADF 2 includes: a sheet tray 21 on which a sheet P is placed; conveyance rollers 23B-23D, for example, for feeding the sheet P in a predetermined conveyance direction, by being driven; a nip part 21B for regulating a front end of the sheet P placed on the sheet tray 21 to a predetermined first reference position; a first sensor 101 for detecting the front end of the sheet P regulated to the first reference position by the nip part 21B; a second sensor 102 for detecting the sheet P, at a position of a rear end of a sheet P1 having the smallest size that allows conveyance when a front end of the sheet P1 having the smallest size is regulated to the first reference position by the nip part 21B; and a controller 5 for allowing the feeding of the sheet P by a feeding mechanism 22 when the sheet P is detected by both of the first sensor 101 and the second sensor 102.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Patent JP-2013085296-A (JP)
Title: Telephone device and electronic conference method
Inventor: AOYAGI HIROHISA
IPC: H04M1/00
Filed: 2013-01-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone device technique capable of obtaining an electronic conference with a simple configuration using the existing browser terminal together.SOLUTION: A calling IP telephone 11A includes a relay function between a calling browser terminal 12 and an IP network 4, and extracts an access destination URI (URI for browser) from an access request message transmitted from the calling browser terminal 12 to the IP network 4, so as to transmit the extracted URI to a called IP telephone 11A. The calling IP telephone 11A also receives a browser URI from the called IP telephone 11A, to transmit to the calling browser terminal 12. The called IP telephone 11A receives the browser URI from the calling IP telephone 11A to transmit to a called browser terminal 12, and with a relay function between the called browser terminal 12 and the IP network 4, extracts an access destination URI (browser URI) from an access request message transmitted from the called browser terminal 12 to the IP network 4, so as to transmit the extracted URI to the calling IP telephone 11A.
Patent JP-2014148996-A (JP)
Title: Oil pump device of belt type continuously variable transmission
Inventor: OKUBO MITSUHIDE
IPC: F04B1/20
Filed: 2013-01-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oil pump device of a belt type continuously variable transmission that can prevent consumption of waste energy by restraining workload of an oil pump when a vehicle speed is high, and that does not require complicated circuits, mechanisms and the like for controlling hydraulic pressure.SOLUTION: The device comprises: an axial piston pump 5 driven by rotational power of an engine; and a swash plate interlock mechanism 6 for interlocking a swash plate 56 of the axial piston pump 5 with a movable sheave 422 of a secondary pulley 42, and reducing an angle of the swash plate 56 so that a pump emission amount gets smaller as a transmission ratio is smaller.
Patent JP-2014148325-A (JP)
Title: Storage case for ptp packing sheet
Inventor: SAKAMOTO SATOSHI
IPC: A61J1/14
Filed: 2013-01-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose a storage case for a PTP packing sheet which is capable of surely preventing a content from unexpectedly falling and of which the structure is simplified.SOLUTION: A storage case for a PTP packing sheet comprises: a container body 2 having a storage space in which a PTP packing sheet 1 is mounted; and a lid body 3 which covers the container body 2 to close the storage space. The lid body 3 includes a plurality of window holes 4 in which a storage protrusion 1aof the PTP packing sheet disposed in the storage space of the container body 2 is exposed and through which the storage protrusion 1ais pressed to push a content to the outside. The container body 2 includes a groove part 6 for receiving the content pushed out by the storage protrusion 1aand guiding the received content to a take-out part 7 provided in a peripheral wall 2a of the container body 2.
Patent JP-2014150459-A (JP)
Title: Communication system and communication method
Inventor: YAMAMOTO TAKUJI
IPC: H04W4/04
Filed: 2013-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid deterioration of reception properties and complexity of a device while reducing power consumption.SOLUTION: A transmission device selects a first communication mode, in which a first process of transmitting a transmission message and a second process of receiving a reception message as a response from a reception device during a reception period following a transmission period, are executed, and a second communication mode, in which a third process formed of the first process and the second process as a pair is repeatedly executed a plurality of times for one transmission message, on the basis of period information. A reception device selects an intermittent reception cycle in the reception device from one of a first cycle, which is a cycle shorter than the transmission period, and a second cycle, which is a cycle longer than the transmission period, on the basis of the period information. The transmission device selects the first communication mode in a first period, and selects the second communication mode in a second period. The reception device selects the first cycle in the first period, and selects the second cycle in the second period.
Patent JP-2014153089-A (JP)
Title: Metal corrosion detection method, corrosion detection device, and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: KAWARAI HISAKATSU
IPC: G01N17/04
Filed: 2013-02-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that, when corrosion of metals is detected by using a resistive element, kinds of metals to be connected in series must be selected in accordance with the size of the resistive element in order to detect which metal has been disconnected by corrosion, and the problem that, when corrosion of metals is detected by using a crystal oscillator, crystal oscillator sensors of which the number corresponds to the number of metals of which the corrosive properties are to be evaluated are required and a configuration of entire equipment is increased in scale.SOLUTION: A plurality of series circuits in each of which a metal of which the corrosion rate is to be computed and a fixed resistor are combined are connected in parallel, and metals of which the corrosion rates are to be obtained are combined in accordance with resistance values of fixed resistors, so that times to disconnection due to corrosion of a plurality of metals in an exposure environment can be obtained. As a result, corrosion rates of a plurality of metal thin films in the exposure environment can be computed, and corrosive properties in an electric apparatus installation environment can be clarified. Further, corrosion rates of the plurality of metals can be easily computed in a small space.
Patent JP-2014153117-A (JP)
Title: System and method for obtaining information indicating direction of mobile object
Inventor: YOKOBAYASHI RYOSUKE
IPC: G01S5/02
Filed: 2013-02-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine the direction to which a mobile object such as a robot is facing right now.SOLUTION: An environment side base station 40 is provided at the ceiling or the like of an area where a robot 10 (mobile object) moves, and the robot 10 is provided with a robot side base station 20. The robot 10 rotates an antenna 45 of the robot 10 or the robot side base station 20 so as to capture the environment side base station 40 (environment side wireless device 50) in the direction of an antenna array axis of the robot side base station 20, and allows the environmental side base station 40 to orient the direction (angle θ1) of the robot 10 while the environment side base station 40 is captured in the direction of the antenna array axis. On the basis of the angle θ1 and an angle θ2 that is held by the robot 10 and is formed by the axis 190 of the robot 10 and the antenna array axis of the robot side base station 20, the direction (=θ1+(180-θ2)) of the axis 190 of the robot 10 is obtained.
Patent JP-2014155281-A (JP)
Title: Power feeding device, image forming apparatus, power feeding method, and program
Inventor: HARAGUCHI TAKAHIRO
IPC: H02J7/02
Filed: 2013-02-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism capable of appropriately feeding power to a plurality of power receiving devices requiring different charging modes.SOLUTION: A power feeding device includes: charging mode information receiving means for receiving, from each of a plurality of power receiving devices having a secondary battery, charging mode information indicating which charging mode of the secondary battery the power receiving device desires, a normal charging mode or a quick charging mode of completing charging at an earlier timing compared to the normal charging mode; power feeding order determination means for determining the order of power feeding to the plurality of power receiving devices on the basis of the charging mode information; and power feeding means for wirelessly feeding power to the plurality of power receiving devices according to the order determined by the power feeding order determination means.
Patent JP-2014139500-A (JP)
Title: Heat engine applying magnetic characteristics of thermosensitive magnetic metal material
Inventor: TANAKA TSUTOMU
IPC: F25B21/00
Filed: 2013-01-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat engine applying magnetic characteristics of thermosensitive magnetic metal material.SOLUTION: (A) Thin plates of a thermosensitive magnetic metal material each at a predetermined size are aligned at appropriate intervals to create a track at an appropriate length, and the track is fixed to an appropriate pedestal or the like to serve as a fixed station. (B) A magnet is arranged near a track surface to create a magnetic field to serve as a movable station. (C) The moving station includes a mechanism capable of moving in a longitudinal direction of the track along the track, and the track is magnetized in the magnetic field by setting a temperature of the track to be equal to or lower than a Curie temperature of the thin plates of the thermosensitive magnetic metal material. Thereafter, a predetermined region on the track in the magnetic field is heated and demagnetized to a temperature equal to or higher than the Curie temperature of the thin plates of the thermosensitive magnetic metal material using heating means, thereby generating a propulsion force with which the moving station moves toward the magnetized track, moves to a heating position, and is demagnetized to move the moving station. The heated region on the track is detached from the magnetic field, and then cooled to be equal to or lower than the Curie temperature.
Patent JP-2014153856-A (JP)
Title: Information processing device and information processing method
Inventor: OKANO AKIHIRO
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2013-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PC which enables a user to easily select a display image displayed on a display unit.SOLUTION: A PC 5 comprises: display means 4 which displays a plurality of images; a first feature extraction unit 62 which extracts features of the respective display images displayed by the display means 4; a transmission and reception unit 51 which acquires captured data that is obtained by capturing the display image displayed by the display means 4, from a portable terminal 2; a second feature extraction unit 63 which extracts a feature of a captured image included in the captured data; and a selection unit 64 which selects one display image from the plurality of display images on the basis of an extraction result of the first feature extraction unit 62 and an extraction result of the second feature extraction unit 63.
Patent JP-2014156027-A (JP)
Title: Barrier film and method of producing the same
Inventor: OKANO AI
IPC: B32B27/30
Filed: 2013-02-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a barrier film superior in oxygen barrier property and water vapor barrier property, and a method of producing the same.SOLUTION: A barrier film of the invention comprises a substrate layer, a vapor deposition layer, and a barrier layer. The vapor deposition layer comprises a vapor deposition film of an inorganic material or inorganic oxide, and the barrier layer is formed by applying an electron beam to a coating obtained from a barrier layer formation solution comprising a metal salt monomer of a polymerizable unsaturated compound and a binder compound.
Patent JP-2014158130-A (JP)
Title: Image encoder
Inventor: SHIOZAWA KIMIO
IPC: H04N19/50
Filed: 2013-02-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the access to storage means, for temporarily storing an image to be encoded and an image being referred in the encoding, less likely to be collapsed even when a frame rate increases.SOLUTION: An image to be encoded and an image being referred in the encoding are stored temporarily in a DRAM 142. A frame rate monitoring section 14 monitors the frame rate of an imaging section 110, and notifies an encoding section 116 of the up/down thereof. When the frame rate is up, the encoding section 116 narrows the motion search range of a motion search compensation section 134 for inter-frame prediction encoding, and expands the motion search range of the motion search compensation section 134 when the frame rate is down.